Clark Peters

Neither are they in England.

But a pantomime is, yes.

Yes, they are now.

Now they are.

Well, they weren't.

Not for people of color.

Yes.

Not for people of color at all.

And because the dynamic, the political dynamic had to change to a large degree, I think that I was here to help facilitate that change or that acceptance.

There was a musical called Bubbling Brown Sugar that came in 1978, I think, to London.

It was a huge, huge success.

um a cast of i think about 38 38 black dancers singers and three white dancers and singers and the story is basically we take them on a tour of what harlem was like during the renaissance and during the heyday of harlem you know and so um it was a kind of it was a kind of show that um

You had to act, sing, dance, do comedy, everything.

And it's the first time, I think, that that generation had been introduced to this quality of performance, particularly by a black company.

I sang...

Sophisticated ladies.

Yes.

I sang... The Ellington song?

Yeah, the Ellington.

Gosh, yes.